ProShares Short Variance

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Reference data associated with the Variance technical indicator for ProShares Short SAMPP500. Some instruments may provide partial coverage depending on trading history.
ProShares Short SAMPP500 has current Variance of 0.5288. Variance is another measure of security risk that shows the amount of dispersion of equity returns around their mean value. Variance is calculated as the average squared deviations from the mean. Evaluating a set of investment alternatives one can use variance to help determine the volatility when purchasing a specific security. Similar to Standard Deviation, the variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out around its mean.

Variance

 = 

SUM(RET DEV)2

N

 = 
0.5288
SUM = Summation notation
RET DEV = Actual returns deviation over selected period
N = Number of points for the period

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Variance Relative To Other Indicators

ProShares Short SAMPP500 is rated below average for variance across ETF peers. It is currently under evaluation for maximum drawdown across ETF peers recording roughly 7.45 in Maximum Drawdown for every unit of Variance. Maximum Drawdown outpaces Variance by 7.45 times for ProShares Short SAMPP500
Variance is also a measure of stock volatility and can help determine the risk an investor might take on when purchasing a specific security. A relatively big variance indicates that the daily prices or returns are far from the mean and a small variance indicates that they are located around the mean. Compare ProShares Short to Peers

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